Ah, I see in a later trac update you have the same problem in Fedora.
But surely there you have cat /proc/cpuinfo. What information does it
give you? We might be able to tackle the problem from there.

Bill.

On Jan 13, 11:14 am, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> To be honest, I really don't know. You are going to have to ask a
> Virtual Box/Open Solaris expert on this. Maybe Open Solaris doesn't
> play nice with Virtual Box on your particular hardware.
>
> Either way, if it lies to MPIR about what the processor is, there
> isn't a whole lot we can do.
>
> Of course you can get MPIR to build on your machine. Just replace 486
> with whatever it really is (core2, nehalem, k8, k10, k102, penryn,
> atom, ....)
>
> ./configure --build=whateveritreallyis-pc-solaris2.11
>
> Bill.
>
> On Jan 13, 10:36 am, Jaap Spies <j.sp...@hccnet.nl> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Bill Hart wrote:
> > > MPIR should detect all known intel and amd CPU's (MPIR 1.3 will also
> > > detect via and atom's), but for some reason it doesn't detect yours.
>
> > > To perform the detection it asks the CPU what it is, using the CPUID
> > > instruction.
>
> > > 2 possiblities:
>
> > > 1) The CPUID instruction is returning the wrong thing
>
> > > 2) It isn't in our list.
>
> > > To check the latter, can you tell us what you get when you issue the
> > > equivalent of
>
> > > cat /proc/cpuinfo
>
> > > if OpenSolaris has such a thing.
>
> > > Bill.
>
> > j...@opensolaris:~/Downloads/sage-4.3.1.alpha1$ /usr/sbin/psrinfo -v
> > Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 01/13/2010 11:25:49
> >    on-line since 01/12/2010 05:53:06.
> >    The i386 processor operates at 2780 MHz,
> >         and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
> > Status of virtual processor 1 as of: 01/13/2010 11:25:49
> >    on-line since 01/12/2010 05:53:09.
> >    The i386 processor operates at 2780 MHz,
> >         and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
> > j...@opensolaris:~/Downloads/sage-4.3.1.alpha1$
>
> > This is in VirtualBox, so virtual processors?
>
> > But I have built dozens of ELF 64 programs!
>
> > Jaap
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